A hated government does not long survive.
It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
A man’s ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
These individuals have riches just as we say that we ‘have a fever,’ when really the fever has us.
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.
You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
It is well to be born either a king or a fool.